Centre for Advanced Research and Development (CARD) , India
BHOPAL Madhya Pradesh
Ddu-gky : Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Grameen Kaushalya Yojana
DDU-GKY aims to skill rural youth who are poor and provide them with jobs to earn regular monthly wages at or above the stipulated minimum wages. It is one of the many initiatives of the Ministry of Rural Development, Government of India, and is a part of the National Rural Livelihood Mission (NRLM). This initiative seeks to promote rural livelihoods and reduce poverty by providing job-specific skills required by the market and then linking the rural youth to the market.

DEV Rishi Educational Society , India
Dehradun Uttarakhand
Skills for Life Project, placement linked Skill Development Training Of The Rural Youth In Uttarakhand Under SGSY-SP (Aajeevika) Guidelines

Janyaa Foundation , India
Vijayawada, Andhra Pradesh
Janyaa, focuses on developing creative problem solving skills in rural kids in India.
Children are first trained on science and math experiments by Janyaa team and then asked to design solutions to solve daily-life challenges such as water conservation, safe drinking water, flood control management, alternative energy etc. Winning solutions are implemented at school or community level with donor support. Children get to witness first-hand their solutions come to life and impact social change in their community.

Kherwadi Social Welfare Association , India
Mumbai Suburban Maharashtra
Rural Livelihood Development Centres (Village Camps) take the vocational skills courses to the rural interiors and tribal belts thereby reaching out to areas where, setting up a Livelihood Development Centre might not be feasible. YP runs the village camps in Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Karnataka, and Telangana & Andhra Pradesh.

Manthan Gramin Evam Samaj Sewa Samiti , India
Bhopal (M.P.)
Entrepreneurship development of rural youths through their training and capacity building by way of technology intervention REDP’s of NABARD, skill enhancement of DRDA (Sehore) and CAPART was executed and created livelihood opportunities for the beneficiaries.

Pipal Tree Foundation, India
Goregaon, Mumbai Suburban
Pipal Tree has built a bus for skill training “Skills on Wheels”. It is a new bus specially modified to provide skill training for rural youth / women at their doorsteps. This bus would move from one location to other location based on availability of interested beneficiaries and would provide skill training and employment (post training) to them. This approach would also address the issue of need for daily travel of beneficiaries to training center or need for providing residential training facilities.
The programme offers
1. Basic soft skills which includes speech and behavioral training, basic English language training in reading and writing.
2. Motivational Training explaining the youth/women about the career opportunities available to them in the industry
3. Skill Orientation where students are trained on basic concepts, tools and work methodology of the skill to achieve proficiency in Retail skills.
4. Provide certification and Permanent Jobs with Retail stores and warehouses.

Sabuj Sangha , India
Kolkata , West Bengal
To ensure the girls with some hard skills we have art and craft sessions.
Girls are given programmes of learning skills in Drawing, Ornament making with Clay & Waste Materials, Making Toys & Decorative items Clay & Waste Materials, Tailoring
Life Skill Workshops
To ensure groom the Girls’ Personality we have regular Life Skill sessions in communication and Interpersonal Skills,
Decision Making and Critical Thinking Skills, Coping and Self-Management, Personal Health & Hygiene
most popular among the Girls is Football.
Sports : As Football is a team game the Girls are learning different essential personal skills needed for future life, e.g. working in team, adaptability, unity, coordination, leadership, communication, peer support and presence of mind.
With time & space the scale of the programme has widened with focus to facilitate many unreached adolescent girls of remote Sunderbans villages. In supporting the identified enrolled Adolescent Girls to a newer concept of life enriching them with self-reliance, confidence and establishing their own identity we continued all our activities for educational support classes, health, mind building sports, yoga, Bratachari activities, skill building trainings of art & craft and building better understanding of life and its various aspects through Life Skill, leadership building & other incapacitating Trainings.

Sun Foundation , India
New Delhi
Surya Kiran has established a large number of Skill Development Centres in various parts of Haryana, Punjab, Rajasthan and Delhi. Most of these centres are located in rural areas which are remote and not easily accessible and lack good road communication and public transport facilities. Main courses conducted in these centres are drafting and stitching, textile designing, embroidery, basic computer knowledge and life style products. The package of courses in each centre is designed keeping in view the interests of local girls and women. Depending upon the type of skill, our Skill Development Centres conduct training courses of 4 to 6 months’ duration on regular basis throughout the year. After successful completion of the course, students are awarded a certificate by Sun Foundation . The certificate helps them in seeking better job opportunities.